Crime Must Pay the Penalty #35
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Fire in Their Blood" follows small-time crooks Whitey Kelso and Max Frame as they pursue an ambitious scheme to execute a major heist that will set them up for life, eventually planning a big haul with the help of a gang operating out of the Rampant Mountains south of Denver. The story details their criminal operations, including stolen goods distribution and liquor store robberies, while Detective Flynn investigates their activities and attempts to catch them. Delaney's father, the only decent thing in his life, ultimately pressures him to go straight, and the gang members are eventually caught as their plan falls apart, with one member discovered dead in the mountains.
Detective George Fendrick recruits small-timer Syd Bender as a stool pigeon while Bender is serving time, unaware that the convict is secretly loyal to Allie Malone—a dangerous schemer who orchestrated their prison bond for exactly this reason. When Malone springs free and pulls a major heist while using Bender to feed false tips to the police, Fendrick grows suspicious, and the pressure sends Bender spiraling into Malone's web of manipulation and blackmail.
Whitey Kelso and Max Frame are small-time crooks who stumble onto a dangerous racket: arson for hire. When a tenement fire meant to collect insurance claims the life of a young woman's brother, Whitey decides to romance her to ensure she hasn't connected them to the blaze—but his feelings for Alice Kearns grow genuine even as his partner warns him he's playing with fire. As their relationship deepens, Alice begins to piece together the truth about the night that changed her life forever.
Pat Delaney, a brilliant but ruthless waterfront crime boss in 1942, has orchestrated a string of meticulously planned heists that keep him one step ahead of both police and rival gangs—but his clockwork precision begins to unravel when a jade shipment job goes sideways and forces him to eliminate loose ends. Facing heat from all sides, Delaney hatches a cunning escape plan that sets his own crew against rival mobsters, leaving him poised to slip out of the city with his fortune intact. In this gritty crime tale, one man's ruthless intelligence may be the only thing standing between him and the consequences catching up.
Gil Waldron, a convict with a taste for the finer things, escapes a Colorado prison in 1944 and assembles a crew to pull off the heist of a lifetime—a gold shipment from the Denver Mint headed for Fort Knox. After months of legwork as railroad employees, Waldron executes his plan with military precision: tear gas, a speeding train, and a midnight drop into Kiowa Creek, where the gang agrees to wait three weeks before retrieving their fortune under cover of the fishing season. But as Waldron's confederates scatter to lay low, greed and suspicion begin to gnaw at each man—and a fortune hidden in muddy waters has a way of bringing out the worst in thieves.
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